Thom Dibdin

Edinburgh

Arts Journalist and Theatre Critic at Freelance

Edinburgh-based freelance arts journalist & theatre critic Owner/Editor @AllEdinTheatre

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The High Life hits the high notes

1 week ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

“U Fur Coffee?”Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson’s The High Life is to get a musical makeover in 2026, after thirty years in the waiting lounge in a new production from the National Theatre of Scotland. Cumming and Masson will be reprising their roles as Sebastian Flight and Steve McCracken. They will be joined by original cast members Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart as Shona Spurtle and Captain Hilary Duff.
Children’s Fest programme

2 weeks ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

The Joy of Imaginate is back!The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival returns this weekend for a day of free family events at the Museum of Scotland on Saturday, followed by a full dozen shows for children, at venues across Edinburgh. This year’s festival runs from Saturday’s Family Day through to the following weekend, with the last performances on Sunday 1 June.
Listings Mon 5 - Sun 22 May 2025

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? It’s another week for braw amateur productions, with a nicely spread quartet on offer. But the best news is that there are still some tickets left for F-Bomb Theatre’s Monumental, this Saturday and next. Inspired by Sara Sheridan’s book Where Are The Women? Monumental is a walking tour which explore the lives of five women who deeply impacted, lived, and worked in Edinburgh, played by actresses in the absence of any statue to them.
All Edinburgh Theatre.com

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

Scottish theatre awards set June date at TravThe annual ceremony for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) is to return to Edinburgh’s Traverse on June 8, with a new award celebrating Scotland’s pantomime productions. Tickets to the ceremony go on sale to the public tomorrow, Thursday 1 May. It will be hosted by actor and panto legend Johnny McKnight, who has been described as the ‘vanguard of post-modernist panto’ for his productions at Glasgow’s Tron and the Macrobert in Stirling.
Listings Mon 21 - Sun 27 April 2025

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Josie Dale-Jones |Abbi Greenland |Rachel Lemon

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? A select listing this week as one biggie opens, another returns and braw new local company puts on some new work. The big opener is Moulin Rouge at the Playhouse (ends 14 June: tickets) the big and no-doubt slick stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic world of splendour, eye-popping excess, glitz, grandeur and glory.
Listing: Mon 14 - Sun 19 April 2025

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week? This Easter Week sees one of Edinburgh’s biggest community productions return for the Easter Play on Saturday, the final week of Wild Rose and a whip-cracking Calamity Jane. The big show in town is the Watermill Theatre’s whip-cracking Calamity Jane, (Tue – Sat: tickets), first seen in 2014 and now out on a 34 date tour before hitting the West End. Carrie Hope Fletcher takes the title role as the biggest mouth in Dakota territory and always up for a fight.
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Liza Gogoliuk

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lung Ha Theatre Company, All Edinburgh Theatre has been delighted to collaborate with the award-winning professional company for actors and theatre makers who are autistic or learning-disabled. Lung Ha have marked the occasion by commissioning a series of portraits of every member of its 24-strong ensemble from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. Æ has published the individual portraits over the year of celebrations (see our News story: Lung Ha hit 40).
All Edinburgh Theatre.com

1 month ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

★★★★☆ IntimatePianodrome: Thurs 10 – Sun 13 April 2025Review by Thom DibdinEdinburgh-based Strawmoddie theatre company bring Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus to the Pianodrome in a powerful examination of the jealousy of mediocrity in the face of genius. Played out in the Pianodrome’s tiny, 75-seat circular wooden amphitheatre, there is a real intimacy to director Matthew Jeffery’s production.
Listings Mon 7 to Sun 13 April 2025

2 months ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

What’s on Edinburgh’s pages this week? It’s another big week of musicals from Edinburgh’s amateur and professional theatre communities with a spot of dance from the boundary-pushing Mr Bourne. First up there are several small productions of new work, often script-in-hand developmental stuff, which look to be absolute belters. If you want to see tomorrow’s theatre today, these are the places to be. On to the big shows where there are Two top tips.
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Nicola Tuxworth

2 months ago | alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lung Ha Theatre Company, All Edinburgh Theatre is delighted to collaborate with the award-winning professional company for actors and theatre makers who are autistic or learning-disabled. Lung Ha have marked the occasion by commissioning a series of portraits of every member of its 24-strong ensemble from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. Æ has published the individual portraits over the year of celebrations (see our News story: Lung Ha hit 40).